Documentation

The details of every advanced feature. For a task with steps to follow, see the How-to guides.

Triggers & Regex

Triggers & Regex: how triggers match log lines, capture text, check conditions and run actions.

• Triggers 101: how a trigger turns a log line into an alert.
• Capture phrases: plain text or regex, Any match or Sequential, cooldown, ignore case and the Regex Visualizer.
• Regex for Nag: a step-by-step primer with a live tester.
• Snippets and variables: every snippet and variable, what it matches and what it shows.
• Conditions and variables: when a trigger is allowed to run, and how stored values work.
• Actions reference: every action type and its settings.
• Timers in depth: Timer, Countdown, DoT, Beneficial and Stopwatch: restart behavior, ending and ended events, End Early, hide conditions, focus effects.
• Trigger hotkeys: hotkey lines and the values Nag asks for.
• Cookbook: worked recipes from log line to alert.
• Why didn’t my trigger fire?: a checklist for triggers that stay silent.